Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261562AbUK1Sqe (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:46:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261561AbUK1Sqd (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:46:33 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:14482 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261563AbUK1Sq1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:46:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Problem with ioctl command TCGETS From: Alan Cox To: Al Viro Cc: Miklos Szeredi , ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20041128121800.GZ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20041128121800.GZ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1101663767.16761.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:42:51 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 13 On Sul, 2004-11-28 at 12:18, Al Viro wrote: > Think read(2)/write(2). We already have several barfbags too many, > and that includes both ioctl() and setsockopt(). We are stuck with > them for compatibility reasons, but why the hell would we need yet > another one? Synchronization. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/